At the ceremony in Kampala, Uganda, organizers said they
chose Adbinur for the prize "for his work in Somalia including the 'Peace
Journalism' initiative which he launched with the help of fellow Somali
journalists earlier this year,” according to AFP. The award also recognized
“all the journalists in Somalia
who have put their lives at risk in telling the story.” Nine journalists were killed in Somalia for
their work in 2009 and one in 2010,
according to CPJ research.

The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award was
founded in 1995 by Edward Boateng and the late Mohamed Amin to “encourage,
promote, and recognize excellence in African journalism.” Previous winners
include murdered editor Deyda Hydara and imprisoned journalist Musa
Saidykhan, both from the Gambia.

Lauren Wolfe is the director of Women Under Siege, a project on sexualized violence and conflict at the Women's Media Center. While CPJ's senior editor, she wrote the CPJ report, "The Silencing Crime: Sexual Violence and Journalists." Previously, she was a researcher on two New York Times books on the 9/11 attacks.